Definitions for joint

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IPA: /dʒɔɪnt/

Joint is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in joint (ijnot).

Definitions for joint

noun

1. the place at which two things, or separate parts of one thing, are joined or united, either rigidly or in such a way as to permit motion; juncture.
2. a connection between pieces of wood, metal, or the like, often reinforced with nails, screws, or glue.
3. Anatomy, Zoology. the movable or fixed place or part where two bones or elements of a skeleton join. the form or structure of such a part, as a ball-and-socket, hinge, pivot, etc.
4. Chiefly British. one of the large portions into which a section of meat is divided by a butcher, as the shoulder or leg, especially as served at a dining table.
5. Slang.. Also called jay2 . a marijuana cigarette.
6. Slang. a dirty, cheap, or disreputable place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a restaurant or nightclub. a place or establishment, as a hotel, restaurant, etc.:
7. Biology. a part, especially of a plant, insect, etc., connected with another part by an articulation, node, or the like. a portion between two articulations, nodes, or the like.
8. Botany. the part of a stem from which a branch or leaf grows; node.
9. Geology. a fracture plane in rocks, generally at right angles to the bedding of sedimentary rocks and variously oriented in igneous and metamorphic rocks, commonly arranged in two or more sets of parallel intersecting systems.
10. Mathematics. knot1 (def 12).
11. the joint, Slang. prison:
12. Slang: Vulgar. penis.

Idioms

1. out of joint, dislocated, as a bone. in an unfavorable state; inauspicious: out of keeping; inappropriate:

adjective

1. shared by or common to two or more:
2. undertaken or produced by two or more in conjunction or in common:
3. sharing or acting in common:
4. joined or associated, as in relation, interest, or action:
5. Law. joined together in obligation or ownership:
6. of or relating to both branches of a bicameral legislature.
7. pertaining to or noting diplomatic action in which two or more governments are formally united.

verb (used with object)

1. to unite by a joint or joints.
2. to form or provide with a joint or joints.
3. to cut (a fowl, piece of meat, etc.) at the joint; divide at a joint; separate into pieces at the joints:
4. Carpentry. to prepare (a board or the like) for fitting in a joint. to true the bottom of (a wooden plane body) to allow even movement along the surface of the work.
5. to file the teeth of (a saw) to uniform height.
6. Masonry. to finish (a mortar joint), as by striking.

verb (used without object)

1. to fit together by or as if by joints:

Origin of joint

1250-1300; 1900-05 for def 6; Middle English Old French joint, jointe Latin junctum, juncta, neuter and feminine of junctus (past participle of jungere “to join”), equivalent to jung-

Examples for joint

You get vaccinated in the arm, you shouldn't have inflammation in the joint.

The joint is jagged in lamb, but smooth and round in mutton.

I went to his joint once, back when I was first hanging out in New York, doing plays.

This past May, NBC News and The Wall Street Journal conducted a joint poll on body art.

“We are proud of the work we have done for our country,” Mitchell and Jessen have said in a joint statement.

Then cut it off where the ends of the bones are attached to the joint.

A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

The imbecile baron then got out; his shoulder was out of joint.

The joint of the 20-foot pieces should be directly in the center of the 10-foot piece.

On the northern side of the joint Security Area between North and South Korea, there is a village called Kijong-dong (기정동).